Gary Numan Digest Thu, 6 Jan 10 Volume 1 : Issue 605 Today's Topics: "On Broadway" Do I need permission to stop? Numan Chat On broadway Sometimes you just never know when you'll need ... Thank 'God' for the TikTokMan Tour Videos ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 10:04:36 -0600 From: hartlaub@falcon.tamucc.edu Subject: "On Broadway" To: numan@cs.uwp.edu (Gary Numan) >one in particular stands out, head and shoulders above all others in the >bewildering category of "What's Wrong With This Picture?"> >I am, of course, talking about the live cover of "On Broadway". Great >version, but in God's name (whoops) WHY??? >Anybody have any insights on this burning question? Huh? Anybody? I have no idea why. I never liked George Benson's version (too pompous), but I like Gary's because I take it as a sort of parody of the song. However, I agree it's a peculiar song to cover considering all the possible choices. -Mark ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Jan 1980 17:27:51 -0600 From: Valerie Iglar-Mobley Subject: Do I need permission to stop? To: The Gary Digest Numanoids, A couple weeks ago, in Digest #600, rawebley@kbacompsys.co.uk wrote: > Who decides on the subjects for discussion on the digest? Is it up to > us the readers, or is it pre-determined by some higher being? I thought that had to be a joke, that it was obvious we subscribers decide for ourselves the subjects for what we post. Turns out I was wrong. Apparently the topics ARE determined by some "higher" beings (in their minds, anyway). Sadly for us, it seems the higher beings who decide for us all what the topics for the Digest will be are... the whingers. Right now the Digest is catering to the lowest common denominator. Instead of being stimulating and creative, it's stifling and restrictive, with discussions being dictated by anyone who can whine and complain the loudest. The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. Imagine a thought experiment with me for a moment. You're at a Numan convention, and you're trying to chat it up with someone. You're enjoying yourself well enough, when along comes some shrimpy guy wearing a bowtie and carrying a clipboard, who interrupts you with a nasal voice to say, "Ahem, ahem, ahem. I'm sorry but you have deviated from the set of discussion topics which have been approved by the self-apppointed managers of this convention. You shall have to correct yourselves." He then removes a sheet from his board listing what topics you can discuss, shoves it into your hand, and skitters off. Maybe you decide to give it another go, and you keep your conversation going. You're able to bring a relaxed air back to the two of you, when some guy with foul breath crashes into you, spilling his beer all over your copy of the 'Photograph' album, and bellows, "WOULD YOU TWO SHUT UP, PLEEEAAAASSSSEE!!! THIS IS SOOOO BORING!!!" and then collapses in a drunken heap. After you'd washed a bit, and gotten the smell off you, you give it one last try with this person. You're finally able to feel a little casual again, when some anti-social loner who had been standing in the corner all evening and staring at the floor, stamps her feet over to where you're standing and pouts, "Well, I've been standing here by myself all night eavesdropping on you two and you have never said anything I find even remotely interesting! I just can't stand it anymore; I'm leaving!" She then clomps out of the convention center, slamming the door behind herself. What would be your thoughts at this point? Would you be thinking, 'Well, I certainly have to clean up my act! Clearly what I've chosen to talk about are the wrong things entirely!' Or would you think to yourself, 'Who are these people to tell me what I can and can't talk about?' Or would your thoughts be more along the lines of: 'What the @#%&?! I mean, what the *%$#-ing %^&@ ??!!?' I say this. It's time for the doors to this forum to swing wide open. Any person should be able to post about any topic-- be it homoeroticism, atheism, or anything any numanoid finds interesting. If anyone else disagrees or finds it uninteresting, they're free to post about their own subjects, and Mr.s Datta and Langsford's "administrivia" be damned. Can I point out that Gary himself wouldn't be able to post his lyrics to this Digest if he had to follow the strictures we've let a noisy few dictate for the rest of us, because they contain the taboo subjects of homoeroticism and atheism. Gary himself has become a taboo subject of the Gary Digest. We've all come together as fans of the Man. With that criterion for admission met, let's communicate about anything we care to. We've each had to stand alone in our appreciation of his music, when everyone around us thought we were oddities for not listening to Britney Spears or the Backstreet Boys. We've been plenty alienated by non-numanoids, let's stop alienating each other. In the final analysis, are we here to serve the Digest, or is the Digest here to serve us? Benjamin Iglar-Mobley http://home.earthlink.net/~iglarmobley (proud member of the Boys Like Us) * * * "Now get in the pit and try to love someone." --Kid Rock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 16:33:51 -0000 From: "Sarah" Subject: Numan Chat To: "NUMAN Digest" Hi Folks, Happy Y2K again!! Just to let you know that Martyn and I have added a Numan Chat room to our Chat site.... so if you want to chat in real time about Numan etc, the #dominion is always open at www.gbchat.com You can go in via the web, or via MSChat, mIRC or PIRCH.... and we'll probably see you in there.... Best Wishes Sarah ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 20:31:45 GMT From: mhoram@relia.net (Curtis A Gibson) Subject: On broadway To: numan@cs.uwp.edu (Gary Numan) \ >> And now, just for a change, a Numan-related question: >> .....I am, of course, talking about the live cover of "On Broadway". = Great >> version, but in God's name (whoops) WHY??? > >I seem to remember GN saying back then that it was a song he'd always = liked - > that's it. A bizaare choice certainly - I wish I'd been there at the 79= tour when=20 >THAT came on for the first time... :-) And let us not forget, from "you are in my vision": =46ocus on a feeling I've detected while I'm sleeping Sing a chorus of "On Broadway" And deny it all. -Mhoram (who is amazed he has something besides questions to post to the list.) "I have great faith in fools-- 'self-confidence', my friends call it." --Edgar Allen Poe ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 14:28:42 +0300 From: "The Tik-Tok Man" Subject: Sometimes you just never know when you'll need ... To: "Numan Digest" I never thought I'd say this but ... y'all know that certain Prince AFKAP (the Sex Thimble) track that Mr. Numan was ordered, in a moment of reckless insanity, to record? (It's on the box set version of M&S) You know, the one we all poo-poo? Well, since I am wedding a certain ex-KGB babe in Moscow on Jan. 15th., THAT particular track will go down a storm at the reception! I mean "Two thousand zero zero, party over ... let's party like it's 1999!" couldn't be more appropriate huh? Naturally there will be more than a few Numan songs played (and vodka toasted) at our private disco that night ... And yes, she is a Numanitchka - she was grooving at the Forum last June complete with arsenic-filled tooth. TikTokMan (& Mrs.) Moscow 2000 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 04:09:43 PST From: "ian blair" Subject: Thank 'God' for the TikTokMan To: numan@cs.uwp.edu, datta@cs.uwp.edu I can't believe that this Numan digest has been hijacked by a bunch of bible bashers! GO SOMEWHERE ELSE PLEASE! It is boring beyond belief. Please lets get back to some interesting Numan topics. Thank God the TikTokMan spoke out last digest... "... should only be debated here only in the context of a direct interpretation of Numan's lyrics, not a free-for-all "atheists vs. agnostics vs. Christians etc. (Boring beyond words)..." Just as I was about to sign out of the digest altogether! You see its things like this... "I am, of course, talking about the live cover of "On Broadway". Great version, but in God's name (whoops) WHY??? Anybody have any insights on this burning question? Huh? Anybody? And was it ever released as a studio recording?" ... that I expect from this digest! TTM... I don't think that it's an official 'studio' recording of 'On Broadway', but I have it on 7" vinyl, on the B-side of 'Remember I Was Vapour' (which I think was a US or Japan release?). Gary also performed this track live with Leo Sayer and 'Tik And Tok', on the Leo Sayer show, back in 83(84?)ish. But I can't shed any light on the reason Gary chose to cover this song? I'd love to know more though! TTM - have a Voddy and pie for me too! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 11:38:45 -0800 From: "paula" Subject: Tour Videos To: "Gary Numan" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Everyone =20 Does anyone know how you can get hold of old Concert Videos. P.S. April's concert should be cool I can't wait. Seeya=20 Paula Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Everyone Does anyone know how you can get hold of old Concert = Videos. P.S. April's concert should be cool I can't=20 wait. 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